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Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit

Introduction: Medical comorbidities (MCs) represent a significant burden in terms of more frequent hospitalizations and overall lower life expectancy among people with severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). The present article a...

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Autores principales: Mariano, Antonella, Di Lorenzo, Giorgio, Jannini, Tommaso B., Santini, Riccardo, Bertinelli, Emanuela, Siracusano, Alberto, Niolu, Cinzia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34658948
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.702789
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author Mariano, Antonella
Di Lorenzo, Giorgio
Jannini, Tommaso B.
Santini, Riccardo
Bertinelli, Emanuela
Siracusano, Alberto
Niolu, Cinzia
author_facet Mariano, Antonella
Di Lorenzo, Giorgio
Jannini, Tommaso B.
Santini, Riccardo
Bertinelli, Emanuela
Siracusano, Alberto
Niolu, Cinzia
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description Introduction: Medical comorbidities (MCs) represent a significant burden in terms of more frequent hospitalizations and overall lower life expectancy among people with severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). The present article aims to compare the prevalence of MCs and to examine the associated characteristics as marital status, job occupation, level of education, and living arrangements, between BD and SZ patients. Methods: One-hundred-eight-one patients with MCs (85/47% had BD and 96/53% had SZ) were recruited retrospectively from the Acute Inpatients Psychiatry Unit of Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, between January-2017 and December-2020. MCs were: cardiovascular diseases (CVD), bacterial infections, mycoses, viral diseases, neoplasms, musculoskeletal, respiratory tract, urological and male genital, gynecological, neurological, gastrointestinal, metabolic syndrome, nutritional, and metabolic diseases. Results: BD had more MC than SZ (36.2 vs. 28.2%, respectively, p = 0.04). CVD and metabolic MC were more common among BD (51.8 vs.34.4%; 51.8 vs.35.3%; p = 0.018; p = 0.039; respectively), while viral diseases were more frequent in SZ (13.5 vs.3.5%, p = 0.035). Hypertension was common in both psychiatric illnesses (81.8% BD vs. 65.6% SZ, p = 0.18). Obesity was the most frequent metabolic disease in both BD and SZ (75% BD vs. 73.5% SZ, p = 0.91), followed by diabetes mellitus (52.3% BD vs. 55.9% SZ, p = 0.93), metabolic syndrome (54.5% BD vs. 47.1% SZ, p = 0.67) and dysthyroidism (47.7% BD vs. 25.7% SZ, p = 0.093). After performing a binary logistic regression analysis, only two MCs showed a statistically significant association: patients with SZ had an OR of 2.01 [CI 95% (1.00–4.01)] for CVD compared to BD; on the other hand, patients with BD had an OR of 16.57 [CI 95% (3.58–76.77)] for gynecological diseases compared to SZ patients. Conclusions: MCs are common among people with severe mental illness, especially CVD and metabolic diseases, highlighting the need for a more collaborative relationship between general medical providers and psychiatrists.
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spelling pubmed-85170812021-10-16 Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit Mariano, Antonella Di Lorenzo, Giorgio Jannini, Tommaso B. Santini, Riccardo Bertinelli, Emanuela Siracusano, Alberto Niolu, Cinzia Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Introduction: Medical comorbidities (MCs) represent a significant burden in terms of more frequent hospitalizations and overall lower life expectancy among people with severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). The present article aims to compare the prevalence of MCs and to examine the associated characteristics as marital status, job occupation, level of education, and living arrangements, between BD and SZ patients. Methods: One-hundred-eight-one patients with MCs (85/47% had BD and 96/53% had SZ) were recruited retrospectively from the Acute Inpatients Psychiatry Unit of Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, between January-2017 and December-2020. MCs were: cardiovascular diseases (CVD), bacterial infections, mycoses, viral diseases, neoplasms, musculoskeletal, respiratory tract, urological and male genital, gynecological, neurological, gastrointestinal, metabolic syndrome, nutritional, and metabolic diseases. Results: BD had more MC than SZ (36.2 vs. 28.2%, respectively, p = 0.04). CVD and metabolic MC were more common among BD (51.8 vs.34.4%; 51.8 vs.35.3%; p = 0.018; p = 0.039; respectively), while viral diseases were more frequent in SZ (13.5 vs.3.5%, p = 0.035). Hypertension was common in both psychiatric illnesses (81.8% BD vs. 65.6% SZ, p = 0.18). Obesity was the most frequent metabolic disease in both BD and SZ (75% BD vs. 73.5% SZ, p = 0.91), followed by diabetes mellitus (52.3% BD vs. 55.9% SZ, p = 0.93), metabolic syndrome (54.5% BD vs. 47.1% SZ, p = 0.67) and dysthyroidism (47.7% BD vs. 25.7% SZ, p = 0.093). After performing a binary logistic regression analysis, only two MCs showed a statistically significant association: patients with SZ had an OR of 2.01 [CI 95% (1.00–4.01)] for CVD compared to BD; on the other hand, patients with BD had an OR of 16.57 [CI 95% (3.58–76.77)] for gynecological diseases compared to SZ patients. Conclusions: MCs are common among people with severe mental illness, especially CVD and metabolic diseases, highlighting the need for a more collaborative relationship between general medical providers and psychiatrists. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8517081/ /pubmed/34658948 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.702789 Text en Copyright © 2021 Mariano, Di Lorenzo, Jannini, Santini, Bertinelli, Siracusano and Niolu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Mariano, Antonella
Di Lorenzo, Giorgio
Jannini, Tommaso B.
Santini, Riccardo
Bertinelli, Emanuela
Siracusano, Alberto
Niolu, Cinzia
Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit
title Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit
title_full Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit
title_fullStr Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit
title_full_unstemmed Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit
title_short Medical Comorbidities in 181 Patients With Bipolar Disorder vs. Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Findings From a Single-Center, Retrospective Study From an Acute Inpatients Psychiatric Unit
title_sort medical comorbidities in 181 patients with bipolar disorder vs. schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders: findings from a single-center, retrospective study from an acute inpatients psychiatric unit
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34658948
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.702789
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